foppery
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All this expensive fashion foppery came at the expense of the poor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
But behind the foppery lay a serious work ethic and a spirit of experimentation that led him through varying painting styles and on travels overseas.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2012
He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.
From Time Magazine Archive
There on the worn stones of the Quarter I enlisted the aid of this wilted flower of a human in gathering his associates in foppery together behind a banner of brotherhood.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Yes, a schism Nurtured by foppery and barbarism Made great Apollo blush for this his land.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti
He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are full of fripperies, fopperies, and finesses; knowing not, that nature should be the model of art.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Extravagant it was in a large way, and costly for one who would appear well dressed; but the fopperies lay more in the stuffs than in the cut of the garments worn.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
But the emergencies of the year 1588 summoned-217--vol ii- him to resign the fopperies of an antiquated knight-errantry for serious warfare and the exercise of genuine valor.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
"These new-fangled fopperies, too!" went on Beattie, as though not heeding her apology.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Charles James Lever
